慢性拖拉症：应该知道的十件事.docVIP

Procrastination: Ten Things To Know 　　慢性拖拉症：应该知道的十件事 　　Is your procrastination hindering you? Ten things you should know. 　　你的慢性拖拉症在妨碍你吗？这十件事情你应该知道。 　　 　　By: Hara Estroff Marano 　　作者：Hara Estroff Marano 　　翻译：水平卅三 　　 　　There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. Procrastinators sabotage themselves. They put obstacles in their own path. They actually choose paths that hurt their performance. 　　许多方法可以让人无缘成功，拖拉症无疑就是一种。拖拉者妨害自己，给自己设路障，竟然选择危害自己成绩的道路。 　　 　　Why would people do that? I talked to two of the worlds leading experts on procrastination: Joseph Ferrari, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at De Paul University in Chicago, and Timorthy Pychyl, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Neither one is a procrastinator, and both answered my many questions immediately. 　　为什么他们这么做呢？我和两个世界顶级专家一起讨论过拖拉症，他们分别是芝加哥德保尔大学心理学学院的副教授Joseph Ferrari（博士），和渥太华卡尔顿大学心理学学院的副教授Timorthy Pychyl（博士）。他们两个都快速地回答了我大量问题，均不是拖拉症患者。 　　 　　1. Twenty percent of people identify themselves as chronic procrastinators. For them procrastination is a lifestyle, albeit a maladaptive one. And it cuts across all domains of their life. They dont pay bills on time. They miss opportunities for buying tickets to concerts. They dont cash gift certificates or checks. They file income tax returns late. They leave their Christmas shopping until Christmas eve. 　　有20%的人确认自己是患慢性拖拉症。对于这些人来说，拖拉是一种生活方式，虽然是一种不良的生活生活。拖拉影响到他们生活的每一个方面：不及时付账单，错失买音乐会门票的时机，不兑现礼品券和现金券，迟迟才申请个人所得税，直到圣诞前夜才去购物。 　　 　　2. Its not trivial, although as a culture we dont take it seriously as a problem. It represents a profound problem of self-regulation. And there may be more of it in the U.S. than in other countries because we are so nice; we dont call people on their excuses (my grandmother died last week) even when we dont believe them. 　　虽然从文化上来讲，这并不是什么严重的问题，但也并非琐事。这是一个深奥的自制力问题。在美国也许会更常见，因为美国人非常“善解人意”，哪怕并不信拖拉者的借口（“我的祖母上周去世了”），也不会责怪他们。